Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014, 04:34:35
He and Japan Times messed up by trying to "explain " The Boxman, since it is obvious that William has no idea what he is talking about.
Abe Kobo is with "The Boxman" practically finishing his cohabitation with western-christian-socialist culture and literature.
Upon becoming one of the greatest writers in the 20th century producing "The women in the dunes" , " The face of another" and
That is "The Boxman" ; tearing down the mask of western novelist literature hypocracy.
It is indeed awesome…………. just like Curzio Malaparte´s "Kaputt" report , "The Boxman" is the peak of renewal of modern
western literature and in Abe Kobo´s case with practical, ingenious , unpolluted, japanese traditional tools.
Japan Times in " Essential reading for japanophiles" by a William Bradbury .
Japan Times in " Essential reading for japanophiles" Abe Kobo`s The Boxman is analyzed by a William Bradbury .
He "found the novel didn't quite live up to the concept, but the concept itself was so ridiculous………etc etc"
Poor Gaijin-Gringo Willie.
He and Japan Times messed up by trying to "explain " The Boxman, since it is obvious that William has no idea what he is talking about.
Abe Kobo is with "The Boxman" practically finishing his cohabitation with western-christian-socialist culture and literature.
Upon becoming one of the greatest writers in the 20th century producing "The women in the dunes" , " The face of another" and
" Inter ice age four" he created the timeless novel, with no beginning and no end , a novel by western school but in haiku timelessness .
A novel in " now" , a snapshot of mans fate and a concentrated accumulation of a lifetime in the blink of an eye.
A novel in " now" , a snapshot of mans fate and a concentrated accumulation of a lifetime in the blink of an eye.
That is "The Boxman" ; tearing down the mask of western novelist literature hypocracy.
It is indeed awesome…………. just like Curzio Malaparte´s "Kaputt" report , "The Boxman" is the peak of renewal of modern
western literature and in Abe Kobo´s case with practical, ingenious , unpolluted, japanese traditional tools.
It is a Dostoyevsky-style-powered analytical surgery and autopsy of man`s destiny with the Japanese zen-practical-realization that
"a man is born alone and dies alone and there is nobody to keep him company on the long road after death."
In other words; Abe Kobo painted a calligraphy of the hopelessness conceived in Scandinavian existentialism (Kierkegaard) using the elegance of the japanese shodo.
It will take another five hundred years for William-kun to understand. Unfortunately we do not think that he is going
to live that long.
By
Gabor Fabricius
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